Fated to you

Her sharp sea blue eyes scanned the area alertly. She looked to her left and then to the right before her legs moved like that of lightening. She ran for an incredibly long period of time before her legs finally gave in so she decided to get a little rest by the side walk. She stayed there for a while gazing at the potholed roads with a disappointed look. It was getting quite late and the potholes were barely visible, any reckless driver would be sorry they had used this road as a route.Mr Crocker had died this way–she thought."A-ha!, gotch ya!." Xander Miler, a 5'9 feet tall boy, quite amazing for his age, shouted, pointing his index finger at her with an unbelievable wide grin showcasing his set of missing tooths."Fine. You win, but only a little." Ericka Wood. Flashed him a knowing look before stingily tearing out a little piece of her bread.Xander outstretched his hand and quickly collected the little piece of bread before hurriedly running to the other side of the road."Tsk

That night.Ericka was about to lay on the bed, when her phone suddenly buzzed. She picked it up and found it was a text from Tony Braden, her boyfriend.[Hey babe, what's up?. I've been tryna reach ya, but you ain't picking, any problem?.]—Tony.Ericka ran her finger across the message. She had met Tony two years ago. He liked her and she liked him so they started dating.Tony was not from a very rich background but he wasn't from a poor one either, you could say he was financially stable. Once, he had proposed to her but she rejected it. Back then she had wanted to focus on her studies. So later on, Tony proposed for the second time and she immediately accepted. The only thing left was to plan a marriage, so how will she explain to him that she has to marry someone else and not him?.[I'm fine.][If you are, why aren't you picking my calls?.]Yes, she had been avoiding his calls.[I've not been with my phone. Just saw the missed calls.]She lied and by now Tony had figured there wa

Ericka ran to her room. A sudden type of anger flaring up inside of her. She slammed the door tightly behind her before sliding to the ground. She tugged at her hair so tight that some fell out but it was not even half of the pain she felt right now.She was so confused, she had no idea of what to do anymore. At that moment, a text came into her phone. Thinking it was from Tony, she ignored it but another text came in. Slightly frustrated, she picked up the phone and found it was from her best friend Freya.[Hi Ricka, What's up?]—Freya.[Why aren't you replying?, I can clearly see your mobile data is on.]—Freya.Ericka sighed. She had totally forgotten to contact Freya because of everything happening.[I'm so sorry...][You better be(￣^￣). By the way,i'll be returning tomorrow.]—Freya.[Really?. I thought you had just gone some days ago?, it usually takes you up to a month before you return.][Well..yeah. The client had canceled the job at the last moment, so there was no use of me st

Ericka kept on running until her legs finally got tired. She checked the time and found it was already past noon. She sighed and took in a deep breath before hurriedly using a short cut since taxi's by now would have all retired.It was getting quite dark and so was the road. She saw a couple of drunk men misbehaving under the street light and decided to make herself invisible but it was to no avail.One of the men immediately noticed her and from the look in his eyes, she knew he had bad intentions. Not thinking twice, Ericka started running even do her legs ached so bad.But the men had already blocked her path in front.She turned to run back but it was already blocked by a new set of drunk men and now she knew she was in trouble."What do you want?!. D-don't come closer, i-i have a knife in my bag!."One of the slightly less drunk men laughed."In your bag?. But I don't see anything."And that was when it dawned on her. She had forgotten her pause."Please..let me go..please."Ano

"I'm sorry, gotta intervene." Saying this, Xander immediately grabbed Ericka out of Nicolas arms."Hey-!"Ericka was about to protest, but it was too late. Xander snaked his hand around her waist, pressing her body harshly against his."What do you think you were doing with that man, huh?." His grip around her waist intensified."Leave me!.""No!. We're going to soon get married but instead you're busy dancing with another man!.""I said leave me!.""And what if I don't?!. First you lied and broke your promise and now you're cheat-"Pah.Ericka slapped Xander and the latter looked at her with unbelieving eyes. By now everyone had stopped dancing."What is wrong with you?!. You were'nt like this!. No this is not the Xan I knew, and you called me a cheat?, I did not want this marriage in the first place, you forced me into it!."Angry tears streamed down her fair cheeks and Xander finally came back to his senses."I. Hate. You. Mr Hart!."Those words were like sharp pins piercing into h